Download file using Okio in Android

Okio is a library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data. Simply Okio is a modern I/O API for Java. 

In this post, we will see how to download image or any file using Okio. Okio is component for OkHttp

Coding Part

Create a new project in Android Studio.

Add following dependencies to your app-level build.gradle file.

compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.6.0'

Don't forget to add the following permission in your AndroidManifest.xml

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>

Implementation

Paste the following code in your Activity and Here, I have kept as MainActivity.java

public void downloadImg(View view) {
 try {
  Request request = new Request.Builder()
    .url(imageLink)
    .build();
  new OkHttpClient().newCall(request).enqueue(new Callback() {
   @Override
   public void onFailure(Call call, IOException e) {
   }

   @Override
   public void onResponse(Call call, Response response) 
    throws IOException {
    if (!folder.exists()) {
     boolean folderCreated = folder.mkdir();
     Log.v("folderCreated", folderCreated + "");
    }
    file = new File(folder.getPath() + "/savedImg.png");
    if (file.exists()) {
     boolean fileDeleted = file.delete();
     Log.v("fileDeleted", fileDeleted + "");
    }
    boolean fileCreated = file.createNewFile();
    Log.v("fileCreated", fileCreated + "");
    BufferedSink sink = Okio.buffer(Okio.sink(file));
    sink.writeAll(response.body().source());
    sink.close();
    new DownloadImage(file).execute();
   }
  });
 } catch (Exception e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
 }
}

It is similar to Java I/O API. It has two important components as BufferSource and BufferSink.

• BufferSource is like InputStream in Java I/O API and BufferSink is like OutputStream.
• You can view any Source as an InputStream, and you can view any InputStream as a Source. Similarly for Sink and OutputStream. 

Demo

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